Madison "Maddie" Woo (born September 24, 1994), also known by the Chinese name Hu Baozhen (simplified Chinese: 胡宝珍; traditional Chinese: 胡寶珍; pinyin: Hú Bǎozhēn; Cantonese Yale: Wùh Bóujān),[1] is an American ice hockey player and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with the KRS Vanke Rays.
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(1994-09-24) September 24, 1994 (age 28) Plymouth, Minnesota, US | ||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | ||
Position | Right Wing | ||
Shoots | Right | ||
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Playing career | 2013–present |
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Traditional Chinese | 胡寶珍 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 胡宝珍 | ||||||||||
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Woo represented China in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[2]
Woo was born and raised in Plymouth, Minnesota, on the western edge of the Minneapolis suburbs, in the United States. She attended Maple Grove Senior High School and played four years with the Maple Grove Crimson girls' varsity AA team in the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL). While a high school ice hockey player, she was a two-time All-Conference selection for the Northwest Suburban Conference and was named a Minnesota All-State honorable mention as a senior.[3]
Her college ice hockey career was played with the Brown Bears women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I during 2013 to 2017. She played in all 29 games as a freshman, sophomore, and junior and was named captain as a senior before suffering a season-ending injury after appearing in just five games. The team’s leading scorer as a junior in the 2015–16 season, she tallied 6 goals – including five power play goals – and 9 assists for 15 points in 29 games.
In 2017, the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) announced the creation of two new China-based teams, the Vanke Rays and Kunlun Red Star WIH, launched in partnership with the Chinese Ice Hockey Association to improve the state of women’s ice hockey in China ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, for which the Chinese national team was guaranteed a berth as the representative team of the host nation. American and Canadian "heritage players" – a designation which, at that time, required a minimum of one Chinese-born grandparent – were sought out by the new teams, as it was possible that they could represent China with the national team in the future.[4]
Woo was recruited as a heritage player and was ultimately selected 48th overall in the 2017 CWHL Draft by Kunlun Red Star WIH. She signed to Kunlun Red Star’s inaugural roster for the 2017–18 CWHL season as one of two heritage players, along with teammate Jessica Wong, and was named one of the team’s "Sport Ambassadors," players selected to mentor their Chinese teammates.[5]
Woo resigned with the team as it merged with the Vanke Rays and became the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays ahead of the 2018–19 CWHL season. As in her rookie season, she played all 28 games and scored 3 goals, though her 3 assists fell short of the 7 she had notched previously.
Following the collapse of the Canadian Women's Hockey League in 2019 and the KRS Vanke Rays' move to the ZhHL, Woo took a step back from hockey to focus on her career in biomedical engineering.[5] She sporadically played with the team during their first two seasons in the Russian league, appearing in four regular season games of the 2019–20 season and in the 2021 ZhHL Cup Final.
She fully rejoined the team for the 2021–22 season, tallying 5 goals and 7 assists for 12 points in 21 games before the Olympic break.
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2009–10 | Maple Grove Crimson | MSHSL | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2010–11 | Maple Grove Crimson | MSHSL | 25 | 11 | 14 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2011–12 | Maple Grove Crimson | MSHSL | 25 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2012–13 | Maple Grove Crimson | MSHSL | 25 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
2013–14 | Brown Bears | NCAA | 29 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2014–15 | Brown Bears | NCAA | 29 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2015–16 | Brown Bears | NCAA | 29 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 34 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2016–17 | Brown Bears | NCAA | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2017–18 | Kunlun Red Star WIH | CWHL | 28 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
2018–19 | KRS Vanke Rays | CWHL | 28 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2019–20 | KRS Vanke Rays | ZhHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2020–21 | KRS Vanke Rays | ZhHL | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
NCAA totals | 92 | 14 | 20 | 34 | 72 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
CWHL totals | 56 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
ZhHL totals | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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2022 | China | OG | 9th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
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